The Rock of Hautepierre by Gustave Courbet
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The Rock of Hautepierre

Gustave Courbet · c. 1869

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden-Blasewitz, before 1923 [according to Scheffler 1923 and 1935 Graupe sale cat. cited below]. Max Silberberg, Breslau, by 1923 to 1935 [according to 18 July 1967 letter from Fritz Nathan to Charles Cunningham in curatorial file, and Scheffler 1923]; sold Galerie Paul Graupe, Berlin, Mar. 23, 1935, no. 20 [price given in Die Weltkunst 1935]. German private collection [according to Alexander, Graf Strasoldo of Lempertz, Cologne, letter of 21 September 1998 in curatorial file]; sold Lempertz, Cologne, Nov. 11-14, 1964, no. 289, to Galerie Nathan, Zurich [Nathan letter cited above]; sold by Galerie Nathan to Paul Rosenberg Gallery and Co., New York, June 4, 1965 [copy of invoice in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1967.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute [as exchange loan] February–May 1975.
  • Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Courbet and the Modern Landscape, February 21–May 14, 2006; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, June 18-September 10, 2006; Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007, cat. 3.
  • Pairs, Musée d'Orsay, Gustave Courbet, October 8, 2007- January 28, 2008. New York City, The Metropolitain Museum of Art, February 25- May 18, 2008, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, June 13- September 28, 2008, cat. 106.
  • Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Courbet - A Dream of Modern Art, October 1, 2010-January 30, 2011.

Literature

Published references

  • Karl Scheffler, "Breslauer Kunstleben," Kunst und Künstler 21 (1923), p. 129–30 (ill.).
  • Charles Léger, Courbet (Paris, 1929), pl. 6.
  • Alice Landsberger, "Eine grosse deutsche Privatsammlung. Die Sammlung Silberberg in Breslau," Die Dame, no. 16 (May, 1930), p. 15.
  • Karl Scheffler, "Die Sammlung Max Silberberg," Kunst und Künstler 30 (1931), p. 6.
  • "Les ventes," Bulletin de l’art ancien et moderne, no. 814 (May 1935), p. 216.
  • Die Weltkunst 9 (1935), p. 3.
  • "Auktions-Vorschau," Die Weltkunst 34 (1964), p. 941 (ill.).
  • "Auctions, Auktionen, Ventes. Deutschland, Spitzenpreise und ungewöhnlich hohes Gesamtniveau," Die Weltkunst 34 (1964), p. 941 (ill.).
  • "Spitzenpreise und ungewöhnlich hohes Gesamtniveau," Die Weltkunst 34 (1964), p. 1108.
  • "Lempertz Auktion," Pantheon 23 (1965), p. 3.
  • "International Saleroom," Connoisseur 158, no. 637 (1965), p.188 (ill.).
  • A. Mardersteig, "Ergebnisse von Winterauktionen," Die Kunst und das schöne Heim 63, no. 6 (1965), p. 6.

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